Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.