"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"God is a verb."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring."

"I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn...."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."

"To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way."

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."