"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

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

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.