Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.