Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.