I hope to finish the book before I'm 90. It keeps you alive. The secret of being a translator is not to be in a hurry. Sometimes it takes hours to find a single word.

It's fascinating because you see it all.

Nobody buys them. They find them in the library.

You don't have to be a surgeon to enjoy these books. The economics, the politics, the turf fights -- it could be yesterday.

This is the first opportunity to read these fellows in English. The purpose was to provide English-speaking American medical students with materials about the origins of their profession.

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.