Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.