Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.