In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.