"I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart."

"I looked at the high walls where once-white paint had grayed and then peeled. Barbara had always said the house had good bones, and she was right about that; but it had no heart, not with us living in…"

"What I saw generically on the pro-biotech side was the attitude that the technology was good and that it was almost immoral to say that it wasn't good because it was going to solve the problems of the…"

"My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside."

"I promise you, I will not be taking very long vacations, if I take them at all. There's no time for vacations. We're not going to be big on vacations."