That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do...
The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
The human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.
Vi rendete conto che tutta la grande letteratura - Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Addio alle armi, La lettera scarlatta, Il segno rosso del coraggio, l' Iliade e l' Odissea, Delitto e castigo, la Bibbia...
The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a labor union after the Army let me go. Unions were admirable instruments for extorting something l...
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons, writes Bokonon, that person may be a member of your karass. At another
Did that really happen? said Maggie White. She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away. She hadn’t had even o...
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is...
We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in the world' - she's talking about cannibals. Lot's to eat.
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.
On an average day, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an average, will have starved to death or died from malnutrition.’ So it goes. ‘In add...
I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
Better to be nothing than a blind doorman at the head of civilization’s parade. And
All people are insane, he said. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.
Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession wh...