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.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Fear is choosing the safe course