One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.