There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors know—that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.