The body is reached through the spirit. First you have to heal the soul. Then you can work on the body.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

Every day I wake up, I say, 'Damn, I hope I don't get that call today.' I don't want to lose my mama. When I start thinking about that, I fall into a hole.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'