The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.