The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Oh my gosh I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

I learn from thinking about the future what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning when I went to sleep at night and that went on for eight years.