The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle-class morality.

It ain't necessarily so, It ain't necessarily so. De t'ings dat yo' li'ble To read in de Bible, It ain't necessarily so.

Fay: Your explanation had the ring of truth. Naturally I disbelieved every word.

That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I …