“A woman you've endured such a gnawing of desire for, you can't help bearing a little grudge against, when the ache is gone.”

“What can't be helped must be endured.”

“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.”

“You can't help poor people and be comfortable. You know, the two things are just not compatible. If you want to really give good health care to poor people you've got to be prepared to be a little uncomfortable and to put a little bit of sacrifice behind it.”

“When someone covets something they desire and lust over it. Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem…”

“Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.”

“Won't you look down upon me, Jesus,
You've got to help me make a stand.
You've just got to see me through another day.
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way.”

“When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.”

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

“Afraid of a woman! Ha, great writer this! How can he write about women, when he's never had a woman? Oh you lousy fake, you phony, no wonder you can't write! No wonder there wasn't a woman in The Little Dog Laughed. No wonder it wasn't a love story, you fool, you dirty little schoolboy.”