The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.

It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.

Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.

Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.

Prayer is not an option but a necessity.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

Lord if you can't make me thin - can you make all my friends fat?

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

You go outside with me right now, we'll ask twelve people on the street what they think about Jews. And all I need's one.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.