Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.
Is this Paradise?''I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangero...
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually...
Call it that if you like. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.
For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on my mind was devastating. Sometimes I would glance over my shoulder to see wh...
This has more aspects than a cat has hair.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that some abstract somethings just happened...
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vo...
Good luck, boys! This time we take ’em!
Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.
Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective . . . and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you’ve resisted.