Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.