While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Virtue knows no color line.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.