The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all