We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.