God is on the side of the big battalions.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.