“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ”

“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ”

“I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.”

“Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.”

“We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.”

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”