Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

make your worst day is the best day in your life, because surely there's something missing within our self without it, so we can be who we are now, the wiser and the mature one

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.