The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

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

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

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

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

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

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