[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.