Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

If somebody writes something and it's true, you're not gonna be able to prevail and get damages, hear it.

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.