The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.