That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

Patch grinned down at me. “I’m hard to resist.

I'm telling you, November 8, we better be careful, because that presidential election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it's going to be taken away from us.

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.