Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation