I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.