Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.