“Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.”
“Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.”
“Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.”
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
“When a system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is to connect it to more of itself.”
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”