The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.