A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

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

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.