My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.


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J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes...
MICHAEL J. FOX
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s...
MICHAEL J. FOX
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion
MICHAEL J. TUCKER
Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and...
MICHAEL J. COHEN
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a...
MICHAEL J. FOX
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
[T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu...
MICHAEL J. SANDEL
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin...
MICHAEL J. SANDEL
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
This is heavy, Doc.
MICHAEL J. FOX
In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO
The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix...
MICHAEL J. COHEN
They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
MICHAEL J. FOX
What other people think about me is not my business.
MICHAEL J. FOX
I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j...
MICHAEL J. FOX
If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor...
MICHAEL J. FOX
It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.
MICHAEL J. FOX
On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX
There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl...
J. MICHAEL BREWER
I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a...
MICHAEL J. FOX
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an...
MICHAEL J. FOX
Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE
There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had...
MICHAEL J. FOX
Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
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MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked.
“With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Why are you here?”
“Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book o...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had t...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN