Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.

On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.