I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.