If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.

Life is a crisis - so what!

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.