You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death.