I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

How can you argue with a woman who won't?

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.