It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.

The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

I think that glamour is about confidence and really owning the look.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Look not down but up!

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.