They are faithful, even if we are not.

Do not lose your heart, " she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.

Each step I take toward him is one more step closer to home.

I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.

Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

The best colleague any doctor can have is a more fully informed patient and family.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Money always talks louder than morality.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

I will never feel successful.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.