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

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

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

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

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.