If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

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.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.