“I cannot do even one sit-up / Sit-ups are so bourgeoisie.”
“The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.”
“Come up in the world and sit on the throne! Sit on the throne and do the world of good.”
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
“People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.”
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.”