Quote of the Day

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

- HL Mencken

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

(There are plenty more Mencken quotes to come.)