"I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did."

“Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.”

“The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.”

“If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.”

Source : "Church History". Book by Socrates of Constantinople, Book I, Ch. 5,

“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”

“Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

“It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.”