I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.