One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

A good time for laughing is when you can.