The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.