Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.