If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.