"Human knowledge is never contained in just one person."
- Paul Kalanithi
"What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain."
"Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death i..."
"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?""Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lu..."
"Even if you are perfect the World isn't."
"Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection"
"I was searching for a vocabulary with which to make sense of death, to find a way to begin defining myself and inching forward again. The privilege of direct experience had led me away from literary a..."
"Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling."
"A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form."
"After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating th..."