Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.