The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.
A zygote is a gamete’s way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the “moral behavior” as “behavior that tends toward survival”.
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.
Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called ‘behaviorist psychology.’
Life is short, but the years are long.
An animal so poor in spirit that he won’t even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
The brown monkey’s instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.