Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.