What is life, but one long risk?

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.