If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

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.

The toughness of any journey means absolutely nothing to a mind that travels with the spirit of perseverance.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

My brother says I'm too famous to hang around with him.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

Our children are not going to be just "our children"

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.