I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Ray Bradbury

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Edward Sapir

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person

Albert Camus

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Brian Eno

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Ibn Gabirol

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

George Eliot

It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?

John Lancaster Spalding

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Milton Glaser

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante