The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.