The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.

The hand is where the mind meets the world.

We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus inside of us. That's a possibility. Maybe we're part flu.

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

Everybody can digest milk when they're little.

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.

The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

Money cannot help lifting its head.