How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.

Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.