With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries–seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible....

I’ll keep you in my heart forever, just so long as you don’t clog up my arteries. Just so you know, my love is like extra gravy all the time.

Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.