You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.