Dr. Steven Novella Quotes & Sayings

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight. — Brian Wilson

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are. — Tom Spanbauer

When you visited my office the other day, did I accidentally say I couldn't wait to see you again? Because if so, I left out a word. I meant to say: I can't wait to see you never again. — Lauren Stewart

Your dreams are the blueprints of your soul. They should take you by the hand and lead you toward your life's purpose and passion. They are one of, if not the greatest, source of self-motivation that you have. So nurture them and feed them inspiration whenever you can. — Mac Anderson

The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's memories and thus affirm and recognize their realness, annihilates the story — Dori Laub

This is what Great Art does. It becomes more real than the real, more true than the truth. — Cormac McCarthy

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. — John Dos Passos