"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise."

"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."

"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."

"The only thing worse than a battle lost is a battle won."

"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."

"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."

"Don't buy problems, they're giving them away for free."