The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

I am at one with my duality.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.