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

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

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

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

I'm myself, not a label.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.