If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.