Basch: So why don't you ask her out? The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no. -So what? What have you got to lose? -The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.
There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
The patient is the one with the disease
To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.
Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.
We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fur...
