They’re not sure what they want to do yet. Mayumi is thinking about medicine, Charlie is thinking about law. But he just turned 13, so we’ll see what happens,

It’s better to be black than gay because when you’re black you don’t have to tell your mother.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

We were afraid they wouldn’t reach their full potential if they went the normal way,

If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.

We don’t think they’re geniuses, … We think it’s a question of hard work and focus.

Neither of us has much of a science education, or even math, … They all went together, at first taking the same classes as their mother. They did better than she did.

It’s a lot bigger here. I don’t like that. When you get out of class, there’s so many people. There are 50 people in front of you, and you have to just stand there waiting...

We’re very happy they chose Berkeley,

I would say we have probably transformed ourselves from a small to a medium-sized institution.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.

He has suffused the entire design with a light and transparency that is truly extraordinary.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.