"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century."

"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?"

"I like children. If they're properly cooked."

"Good things don't end in 'eum,' they end in 'mania'...or 'teria'."

"I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter."