Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken
We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. – H.L. Mencken
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken
Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne