"I grew up very introverted and I'm still a very introverted person, so to me it's about constantly just pushing and pushing out of your comfort zone because that where you're going to grow the most."

“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.”

Source : "How bacteria 'talk'". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

“Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.”

“The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.”

Source : "Is It Too Late to Stop the Warming?" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2006.

“Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.”

“An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.”

“There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.”

“I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.”

Source : "Microsculptor's Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. August 19, 2009.

“I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.”