The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.