The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.