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

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

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

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

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

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

The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.