I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.