Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like electronic rosaries. It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn’t matter what is flashing on the screen-all that’s important is that the TV stays on.

Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.