It is your human environment that makes climate

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'