Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.