Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

A good title is a work of a genius!

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

Challenges stimulate courage.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

You see the world much better through a camera.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.