I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

Cynthia Ozick

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.

Proverb

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Christian Marclay

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with ?pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Orhan Pamuk

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

Princess of Wales Diana

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Aristotle

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Salman Rushdie

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill