Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.