All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.