All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

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

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.