"I'm just trying to make some noise."

"My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother."

"The price of fame is a lonely life."

"I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field …"

"I'm not a legend. I'm a human being."