Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out