Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!