May I ask you a highly personal question?""It's what life does all the time.

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.

Is this some kind of joke?""That's for me to know and you to find out.""Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit sui

If you love three people at the same time, choose the first one, because if there was a 4th or 5th one, you might still fall for them.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

I heart Jewish girls... oh my God.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.