If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.