The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

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

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.