Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.