Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

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.

Everything you are now seemed impossible at some point in your life.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

Dance is music made visible

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.