Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.