Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

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