I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

"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.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.