Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall