What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.