No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.