A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.