If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.