12 quotes found
“No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.”
“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
“Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.”
“Boys fight the wars. Wed have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.”
“Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.”
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan ...”
“Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump ...”
“Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours there is no life without them. ”
“He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when we were studying the laws of repentance together, the lodger burst from his room. "What!" h...”
“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under a...”
“I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.”