I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.