Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

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.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.