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If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....

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The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

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The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

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Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

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Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitab...more

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This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white ...more

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Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and...more

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The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in ...more

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A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

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Know your load. That’s rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I’m not going t...more

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Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

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To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Isla...more

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Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at...more

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Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvious to him that he didn’t. Not in the way Nathan H...more