"Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place."

“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”

“The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.”

Source : "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews". Book edited by Malcolm Cowley, First Series, New York: Viking Press, p. 261, 1959.

“I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

“A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.461, e-artnow

“You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?”

Source : John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin

“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”

“The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

“I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.”