The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.