Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Where are you taking me?” Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.

All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!