Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.