It's certainly been challenging. We plan for cost increases, but this has been a situation that a lot of events have come together all at one time.

It is almost never possible to do pre-licensing studies that are large enough to find very rare events with great certainty, ... We have to find the correct balance between safety and making new preventive tools -- such as vaccines -- at a cost our society can afford.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

Californians have a right to know what's being sprayed on them. The Environmental Quality Act is there so we know what's happening, and once we know we can work to have plans changed so the bad effects aren't so bad.

It won't, because federal law protects us from variances.