To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.