"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith."

"Some men are born posthumously."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."

"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child."

"On going to war over religion: You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend."

"To a quick question, give a slow answer."

"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."

"Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it."

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph."