It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!