“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”

“My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. ”

“The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.”

“What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.”

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

“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.”

“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.”