The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.