I do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another. – Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. – Anna Freud
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. – Lewis H. Lapham
