I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body.

If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

I'm not here to criticize anyone.