Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.
There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.