If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.