Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.