Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Texas is killing people in the 73rd trimester.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.