"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything." - Richard Feynman in 1966

""Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan" - Jane Goodall, as told to Ira Flatow in 2002

"I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." - Buckminster Fuller, as told to Studs Terkel in interviews recorded in 1965 and 1970

"I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something" - Lou Reed, as told to Joe Smith in 1987

"I don't like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch." - B.B. King - As told to Joe Smith in September 1986.

"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not." - Elliott Smith, as told to Barney Hoskyns in 1998

"If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn't write it." - Tom Robbins in 1994, as told to Tod Mesirow

"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal." - Robin Williams, as told to Lawrence Grobel in a previously unheard interview recorded in 1991.

"I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time" - Wayne Coyne, as told to Jennifer Van Evra in 2002

""The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up." - Maya Angelou on Con Men, as told to Studs Terkel in 1970.