Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.