We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.