He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.