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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.

I am not stroppy at all.

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

St. Tropez has a face glow that is amazing - you can put it on without makeup, and your skin just glows.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.