Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.