This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.