My book contains texts that I wrote during college, medical school and during my residency of neurosurgery. I could set the book �Thoughts from the hospital" as clippings thoughts

We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time.

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.