This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.