There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.