I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

The sea never dries for it has so many friends.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.