I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
“At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
“There is no illness of the body except for the mind”
“Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.”
“From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.”
“I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".”
“It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.”