I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

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

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

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.

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

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