Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

To want is to have a weakness.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.