A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.