I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

For all those who believed me, and for all those who didn't. It can't be easy hearingthings that you shouldn't.

Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.