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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.