"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it"

"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else"

"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination"

"If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick"

"Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder"

"Civilization is what makes you sick"