We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.