Life is short, but the years are long.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.