
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Science is all metaphor.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

I am at heart a gentleman.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.