“It is never a mistake to say good-bye.”

“It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.”

“God never wrote a good play in his life.”

“But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.”

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”

“People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.”

“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”