More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

I do not think it is appropriate for teenage boys and girls to share the same bathroom.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers and without diluting the story?

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Live without seeing, but be what you are.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.