Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.