Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world$$$ so to speak$$$ your story will get pneumonia.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Round and round we spin$$$ with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Before all masters$$$ necessity is the one most listened to$$$ and who teaches the best.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.

That's why we love disaster. It puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.