I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!

Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.

Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Words, he knew, could scar.

What you don’t understand you cannot treasure

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.