I never take myself too seriously..

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained..

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more..

all deaths are one's own..

I am no one to be a purist..

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism o….

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the commo….

People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like….

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room.

Ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you.

3-D movies can make me nauseous..

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have..

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we ….

I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear..

You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear ….

He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shan….

The MS really started going downhill in 1990..

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week..

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time..

You can't escape from what you are..

No one ever gets to see what could’ve been..