I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. T….

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies..

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better..

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist..

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how mu….

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn….

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies..

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one..

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors..

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea i….

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl a….

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre..

All this happened, more or less..

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments..

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God..

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves..

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty..

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complain….

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts a….