People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

How embarrassing to be human.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.