It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.