The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.