Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.