Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.