One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.