I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.