The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.