You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

An armed society is a polite society.

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

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.