There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

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

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

"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."

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

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