I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.