You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run