A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.