Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

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.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.