Juan Carlos

“When you've been at it as long as I have, when you've treated people under all sorts of circumstances, when you've treated their parents and their children, you begin to see patterns. Illness doesn't strike randomly, like a theif in the night. Certain types of people at certain points in their lives will come down with certain kinds of ailments. You can almost predict it after a while. A disease can serve the same function for an alert doctor as a Rorschach inkblot for a psychologist; it's a form of existential self-expression for a patient. I know this may sound a little farfetched, but disease is not arbitrary, and it does not ' attack' .”
― Lisa Alther, Kinflicks

“Being funny for its own sake is very estimable. It's a nice thing but if you continue to be very funny, if you persist in it, you turn into a crank, like any other crank, because you become clever and you're always alert for an opportunity to make another crack and then you become silly. There has to be measure in these things and the humor has to be your humor and it has to be natural to you and without strain. So wit is a very good thing but persistent cleverness in wit can be very boring and trying to people.”
― Saul Bellow

“There are some things he doesn't want to know about himself, and others he doesn't want anybody else to know. Which makes him like the rest of us. ...
There are moments in the lives of others that excite both our disgust and our shame, the fear of what we ourselves might do. ...
I venture to say that everyone on this jury, and everyone in this room, has done things that they're ashamed of, and told lies that they regret.”
― Richard North Patterson, Silent Witness

“Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover