I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

Democrats are afraid of polls. Republicans aren't afraid of polls. Republicans make polls. Democrats run from polls.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.