Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

—Alice James

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

—Dave Barry

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

—Henny Youngman

Healthy people are always prejudiced against medicine.

—Catharine Maria Sedgwick