I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.
Sofia Vergara
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as... →
Abraham Verghese
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so... →
I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent... →
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen... →
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you... →
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about... →
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life?... →
Guy Verhofstadt
Baseball's my life.
Justin Verlander
People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.