Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.