Quotes About Author

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

Brows more or less can sculpt the face and minimize features you find less flattering.

I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.

What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive.

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.

Brexit has acted as a catalyst encouraging more people to think and vote outside of traditional party loyalties.

Breaking Borders' is about, more than anything, communication and conversation. The best lesson I've learned from doing this show is that when there is a breakdown in communication, conflict starts.

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

I would vote for a Mormon.

I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don't like BYU.

I've never been a morning person, ever. I hate the morning. I have more energy at night.

I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

I love doing my morning show with Bill Hemmer.

I'm not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I'm not on set for the day. I take our dog, Milo, for a walk before having a light breakfast and settling down to write.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to be mortal.