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

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

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

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

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

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

"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.