"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."

"Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them."

"On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks."

"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."

"Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"Just as big cities can deplete you with their noise and crowds and sheer sensory overload, a hospital can exhaust you, as its changing faces and personalities blur and strangers wake you repeatedly."

"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Hell is to drift; heaven is to steer."