Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

It's just a kiss, she mentally swore. But kiss was much too simple a word to call the powerful connection that simply rocked her world.

She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise...

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.