Customs, morals—is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe—...
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl tha...
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in...
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be sway...
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a t...
I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you...
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Functional organization. How does one design an electric motor? Would you attach a bathtub to it, simply because one was available? Would a bouquet of flowers help? A heap of rocks? No, you would use...
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
Indian government seemed as furious over fish as fishermen – but principle of sacredness of all life did not apply to us; they wanted our heads.