One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.

I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.