“When you look through a window, do you see geometry or optical dimension?”

“The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain’t so.”

“One of Freud’s biographers, Peter Gay, describes the unconscious as a maximum security prison where all the desperate criminals (i.e., dangerous feelings) are kept under heavy lock and key. The analogy is helpful in understanding the psychology of psychosomatic disorders, for it is the drive of these feelings to come to consciousness (the attempts of criminals to escape) that necessitates symptoms to prevent that from happening.”

“By his own reckoning, he read over 300 books a year and scanned about 400 more. The only time he ever read fiction, he said, was when he traveled by plane. He also regularly read thirty different magazines. He would read well into the night, until he fell asleep with the book or magazine in his lap, like the little boy in Jamestown, whose mother would then remove the book and turn off the light.”

“He’s the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”