The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

"If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so."

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

"Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear."