If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.

How should they answer?

The world is proof that God is a committee.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.