Tom Wolfe Quotes

I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.

My life is basically my work.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

My life is very much consumed with work.

L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

When I became a producer, I told myself I will finally be able to bring my dog to work.

From a very young age, I had this idea that if you are very successful in your career, and you're giving all of your attention to that, then your family life... possibly will not flourish as it might.

I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.

I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.

I got a job to do on the field.

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

I am all for career, whether pre- or post-marriage.

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.