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

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

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

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

"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.