Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.