"Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it."

“In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room.”

“Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

“I don't care much about conforming.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”

Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

“it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me”

Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

“I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.”

Source : "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

“For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.”

“There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume.”