Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.