If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.