Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.