When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.