I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

Make something beautiful of your life.