Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.