Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.