It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.