Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.