I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.