The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.

To change your LIFE you need to change your PRIORITIES.

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.