I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.

'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.