In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

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