In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

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

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

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

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.