The Immortal Quotes

“single good word at the right time can do much more than a thousand without meaning,” Matityahu calmly replied.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“feel the same way. If you drive well, you drive too fast, I always say.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“The profiler in me says that someone like Hofzacher, who leads such a restless life, always going from place to place, hotel to hotel, and in negotiations with the richest and most powerful people in Europe, needs a place of retreat. Many people with this personality structure have autistic traits, even though the diagnosis autistic or Asperger’s is used far too often. ‘Autistic traits’ is the term for something less than full-blown autism, so to speak. The fact is, for outstandingly brilliant people, withdrawing into themselves and their own world of thought always plays a major role. Many neglect this aspect of their personality, which always has its price. Those individuals—let’s call them high achievers—who build something great have learned to balance their competing character traits in a way that allows them to be creative and productive without getting worn out and drowning.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“Donald Trump’s son illegally shot an endangered Argali sheep in Mongolia and got a permit from the Mongolian president after the fact?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“By giving NMN, metformin, and rapamycin, we have already been able to reduce the information noise of worn DNA and thus provide more years of life. In 2009, a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery that the enzyme telomerase can lengthen the ends of chromosomes, or telomeres, despite the fact they get shorter with age due to wear and tear. The problem, however, is that our bodies turn off the enzyme to protect us from cancer. That doesn’t happen in stem cells.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“Caroli’s disease.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“Most geriatric researchers take metformin because many studies have shown it to have a life-prolonging effect and it seems to have a beneficial effect on the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“lorazepam”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“Why would I drag out such a condition forever like an endless spasm where I can only lose?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

“Turritopsis nutricula,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Immortal: A Medical Thriller