“Beauty is so rare a th—Sing a new songRealMusicA busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. AVisiting card— from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]”

“You cannot evade the issue of God, whether you are talking about pigs or the binomial theory...Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true.”

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself."(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958)”

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

“It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence. At such times love was joy to him, a wild, keen–thrilling satisfaction. But when away from his god, the pain and the unrest returned; the void in him sprang up and pressed against him with its emptiness, and the hunger gnawed and gnawed unceasingly.”

“They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.”