Thomas Huxley

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.