Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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

Fear is choosing the safe course

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.