Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.