There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

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 scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I'm innocent!

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.