Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.