We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.