"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

"The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe."

"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."

"It breaks my heart that some people are only kind when there is something in it for them. Everything is a business now, including human decency."

"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"

"For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."