Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.