Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.