You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.