Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?