"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be."

"I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like and if you have babies, you have babies."

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

"...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies."

"If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?"

"The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse."

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table."

"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."

"PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne."

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"

"What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."