“ 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 Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious ill… Jacob M. Appel
“ The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop. Jacob M. Appel
“ If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.... Jacob M. Appel
“ Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history. Jacob M. Appel
“ Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own. Jacob M. Appel
“ 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 to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds… Jacob M. Appel
“ 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 a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are… Jacob M. Appel
“ 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. Jacob M. Appel
“ 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 Christmas and Thanksgiving. Jacob M. Appel
“ Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, unt… Jacob M. Appel
“ 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 bed, silence. Jacob M. Appel
“ 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 that we too can change the world long after we've… Jacob M. Appel
“ 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 Hale had loved America. Or even in the way his late… Jacob M. Appel
