If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
We all thought well of him until he made the mistake of coming into the White House one Saturday morning in a sport jacket.
