"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.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

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

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.