Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.