With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.