The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.