When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

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

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

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