There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public fo….

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe..

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so..

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools..

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them..

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out..

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft..

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard..

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it..

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive..

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them..

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains becau….

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws..

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make ….

Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it..

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization..

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up..

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed..

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman..

There is no safety this side of the grave.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the huma….