Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.