What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.