Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter..

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Th….

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother..

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else..

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart..

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "San….

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track..

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist..

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for..

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy..

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too..

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection..

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars,….

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate..

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'..

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance..

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots o….