Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.