Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC