I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail."

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.