No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

How little we know of what there is to know.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.