Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

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.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.