Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.