"Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."

"Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side,"

"It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now."

"What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them."

"man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing."

"Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore"

"The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy."