Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are distorted, dramatized allegories based on some element of truth, some actual, if profoundly elusive, aspect of man's existence.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.