In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

I was particularly good at math and science.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

My family gave me the best in education.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I love being in a band.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

Complexity begets ambiguity which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat men as arm them with fancy.

Normalcy is not interesting.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.

In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.