Carl Djerassi

"In the cover story of its 12 September 1999 issue, the London Sunday Times Magazine featured the Top Thirty persons of the present millennium. ..."

"The list was heavily skewed in favor of science and technology. ..."

"In the final analysis, in science, unlike art, the individual hardly matters."

"Well, hardly ever. Unless the individual happens to be oneself. The Sunday Timess list ends with one living relic. On the face of it, the appearance of the name Carl Djerassi is patently ridiculous by any criterion but one: as a surrogate for the Pill."

"... I got to writing poetry out of revenge — self-pity and revenge."