it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.