If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.