People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.