If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.