"Just as big cities can deplete you with their noise and crowds and sheer sensory overload, a hospital can exhaust you, as its changing faces and personalities blur and strangers wake you repeatedly."

"Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings."

"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."

"Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again."

"Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative."

"There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools."

"Thinking rationally is often different from 'positive thinking,' in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible."

"What a splendid head, yet no brain."

"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."

"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity."

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."