For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

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?

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.