Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Medicine and writing are natural companions.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!
Medicine involves dealing with people who are going through changes and cycles, often people trapped in bodies that are going out from under them. Spending time with them lets you think their way, gives you insights as a writer.
Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.