Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!

It's really my fault because I continue listening to the things that you say.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

It's a free country. I wish it weren't.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.