Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

The nature of business is swindling.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.