"We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised."

“I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.”

“Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.”

“Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.”

“I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.”

Source : "For Stripe Cofounders, Y Combinator Supplies Far More Than Mentoring". Interview with Austin Carr, www.fastcompany.com. August 22, 2012.

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”

“A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.”

Source : Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

“I think [Donald] Trump is going to try to be fairly low key, but the problem is that I don`t think he is going to very well with [Hillary] Clinton attacking him fairly relentlessly for 90 minutes.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com

“What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family...”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.