We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.