What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

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.

Never insult anyone by accident.