"Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are."

“All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.”

“Oh my God, this can't be happening!" I cried. "What?" "Mopeds? Those are the wheels Pete gives us? I knew he was pissed off at me! It was all that time I spent in the hospital wasn't it? Or was it the wrecks? But I only tore up one car last time! And that wasn't my fault!”

“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”

“An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.”

“I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.”

“What I really don't like is oversimplification.”

“We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.”

“You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.”