The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.