It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.