Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.