Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.