Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.