Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah there was no cake. Today there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

If there were only one truth you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

After this I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

But honestly if you do a rigorous survey of my work I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.