After sex, all animals are sad; after any kind of pleasure, really. We're not built for pleasure. We're built for agony and for seeing things too clearly, which is often a terrible agony in itself.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from doubletalk.
Any thought which is printed, either here or in the paper, without subsequent attack is generally believed to be true. This is not so much a logical condition as it is a fault of human nature. A longstanding or constant idea is often equated with a true one.
I believe in a political revolution, without the aid of the military. I would rather win a man's mind than compel his obedience.
I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.
If I examine myself closely enough, I find hints of every objectionable quality known to man.
Isolation is nice... It's a shame you can't share it with anybody.
It is the nature of religions to put a higher premium on your proper attention to ritual than on your convenience.
Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents.
People who live their lives by proverbs waste their time doing lots of stupid things. 'Getting even is the best revenge' is my motto.
Perpetual lust has got to be good for the human race.
Police departments all over the world were identical in two respects: they all have a fondness for breaking your head open for little or no provocation, and they can't see the simple truth if it's lying in front of them naked with its legs spread.
Politicians and sex stars may cuddle up to you and it doesn't prove a thing, but when the butlers of the world notice you, you realize that some of what you believe about yourself is true.
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.
The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren't any.
The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.
The universe doesn't have secrets... only lies and swindles.
There are more strains of courage than merely facing a sword.
Turmoil and revolution in their best guises serve to tear down ancient and meaningless customs, in favor of practical social reform.
Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.
When you wander into the highest level of international affairs, it's almost always dirty.
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