"White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades."

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."

"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past."

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."

"If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also."

"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."