I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.