Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

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

"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."

Exercise is an unnatural act.

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.