There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

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