But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?