The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.