No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.