“There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano.”

“I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.”

“Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep. ”

“It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”

“It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.”

“It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.”

“Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.”