Security is the denial of life

The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.