It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.