I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

I mean you last as long as lies.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.