Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.