Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.