It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.