Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing. ~ Ch. 4

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny. ~ Ch. 3

I dislike it when instead of saying Jew they say Hebrew or Israelite, or Semite, I do not like it and why should a Negro want to be called colored. Why should …

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. ~ Ch. 3

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know som…