“Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.”

“Psychics. I love to prove you wrong.”

“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.”

“Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.”

“It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.”

“Someone is out there," I said. "Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - ""Mixing metaphors?" Thomas suggested.”

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”