Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words

I think we've got to stop parsing words and trying to be anything other than accurate about what this is, ... This is highly sophisticated material. It is small in size and it aerosolizes.

But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

There's not one way to do it. We're all trying to provide better and more accessible care to patients.

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.