I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

Books are like tweets, except longer.