Paul Auster Quotes

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

Medicine is so fascinating.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

I was cured all right.

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.