"The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough."

"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime."

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness."

"If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions."

"Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ('Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.')"

"Mine is the poverty of angels. I just don't give a damn about possessions and the like... What need have I for objects and luxury? I write, and that's enough."

"HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate."

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."

"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."

"...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life."

"A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."