It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.