I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.