Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.