Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

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

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.