This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.