Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.