"If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?"

"Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds."

"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.