We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.