Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.