...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.