Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.

The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.