If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.

I'm a lurid character!

Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes