Love is where you find it.
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, “Please – a little less love, and a little more common decency.”
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That’s like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
There’s only one me, and I’m stuck with him.
I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that’s the soul seeking some relief.
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.
Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
No moral value is greater than humanity.
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.
Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.