"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.

Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.