Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.