Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Can you say something about nothing?

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.