A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.