The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

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.

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.

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.

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

Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one’s memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse at your throat Deep in the heart of the land.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.