Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt - Robertson Davies

When I was born good fairies clustered round my cradle, showering me with wit, beauty, grace, freedom from dandruff, natural piety and other great gifts, but the Wicked Fairy Carabosse (who had not been invited to the party) crept to my side and screamed "Let him be cursed with Inability To Do Little Jobs Around The House", and so it has always been.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.