There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

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

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.