The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.