Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.