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

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

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

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

"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."