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Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

I don't have a philosophy in a nutshell; I would go on and on too much.