Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.

Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.