Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

We are all descended from monsters.

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.