“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.”

“...the horse is by no means a ‘wild beast’ or a stupid animal as sometimes described by thoughtless persons.”

“Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”

“Bubonic plague is 'natural,' I snapped back. Doesn't mean it's good for you.”

“Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!”

“What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.”