I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

All true wealth is biological.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.