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My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I'm looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.