I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over – except when they are different.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren’t things I don’t love, but when I think about what my body is doing – creating a child – it just blows my mind. I’m in awe of the process and science.