What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.