The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.