Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.