"A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own."

- W. H. Auden

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

- W. H. Auden

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

- W. H. Auden

"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape."

- W. H. Auden

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

- W. H. Auden