Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.