Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.