“Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.”

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

“Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.”

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“She wasn't wholly infatuated, though she liked the way he looked; but, so too did he and that unfatuated her a bit.”

“Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.”

“I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.”