Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.