Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

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.

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.