A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.