There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.