My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas