Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.