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

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.