It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

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.

I destroyed myself because I thought no one will destroy me that way but I guess I was wrong... they're stonger.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

Man is not interesting without some imperfection

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.