“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”
Source: Dead Until Dark
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Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 1
Often misquoted as "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Nostromo (1904)

Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.”
Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I

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One Man's Meat (1942)

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ”

God doesn't believe in atheists (2002)