We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.