“The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

“What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!”

“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.”

“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.”

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”

“Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.But if you can't walk away?I guess that's when it's tough.”