Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.