This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.