“All truths are bloody truths to me.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“A good deal of our politics is physiological.”

“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”

“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”