"The nature of the chemical bond is the problem at the heart of all chemistry."

"...but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself."

"SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year."

"And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty diff…"

"May Allah give us strength to make love, compassion, modernity, democracy, freedom, everything beautiful and everything Allah loves prevail in the world."