“Sainthood is not a prerequisite for acceptance to medical school. Perhaps it should be.”

“The time that I spend in hospital is so dauntingly real that it makes my activities and emotions outside of working hours feel childish and superficial, like a sitcom, a half-hour television comedy.”

“I have a theory that doctors are permanently tired as they are always fighting off some new virus to which they have been exposed.”

“...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It is easier, I suppose, just to believe that some people are born inherently evil.”

“Remember that life is a lot like medicine: at the end of the day, everything is a matter of risk versus benefit, pro versus con.”

“I GOT SOOO MUCH SWAG!!!!”

“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the figure of Juno, the brains of Minerva, the memory of Macaulay, the chastity of Diana, the grace of Terpsichore, but, above and beyond all, the hide of a rhinoceros.”