If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.