There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.

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

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.