“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.”
“I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.”
“My miracle is what God does when I obey.”
“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”
“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”
“We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that a dog feels something but does not show it. What a dog feels, a dog shows, and, conversely, what a dog shows, a dog actually does feel.”