The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.