"God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards."

"I am the sworn poet of the new, modern, democratic man."

"Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and insult you, and smite you?"

"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long."

"I make my way to the hospital, and stay there for hours, among the wounded, to give them what comfort I can, and to read to them, and to write letters for them."