The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.