Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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.

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

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.