The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

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

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.