“a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.” RoomsSickSacredIllness Book:Letters of Emily Dickinson Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
“It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.” PeopleIfsBelieveWaitingRoomsResultsDoctorsSickIllnessTreatmentNurseBelieve In MeIncarnationPrescriptionsMedicationLabsEmbodimentPowerlessnessTechniciansCallbacks Book:How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick Source: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick
“Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.” PeopleIfsNeedsStatesProblemActorsPresidentUnitedRoomsUnited StatesTelevisionDegreesIllnessMental IllnessApproved Author:Keith Olbermann