"Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm."

"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

"The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance."

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

"It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven."

"Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch."