I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.