If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.