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?

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

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

I am thrilled to see my genome.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.