No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.