With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

I wouldn't want to spend every waking hour asking people for money. A, I can't do it, it's just not my nature.

Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.