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

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it.
A Prologue to Love

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

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

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I often reread books I have written.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

You'll notice that it is the haters of humanity who are always trying to reform it. They want to feel superior to the general run of mankind.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state ... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

I will know him by his eyes.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

The world is a penal institution.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.
A Prologue to Love

My childhood was appalling.

I converse with my dog through ESP.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

I'm not that interested in people.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's,

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

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

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

My dreams are all follies.

We all choose how to look at life.
A Prologue to Love

God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures ...

No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares to be as they are not.

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

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Everyone living is doomed

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

We are not old unless we desire to be.