The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.

Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

There is nothing that means more to a woman than a love she can count on.

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?