The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

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.