In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

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

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.