An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

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

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.