New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

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.