God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.