Apostasy always trumps heresy. Refusing to join the army may get you jailed, but deserting will get you shot.
One must admire psychiatry’s enterprising spirit: not content with lobotomy, electroshock, hydrotherapy, and tranquilization, it has pressed boldly forward to gender reassignment surgery on confused adolescents.
Public opinion is not what everyone believes, but what everyone believes everyone else believes.
People’s confidence in their own judgment and discernment is the one commodity that should always be sold short.
We so often demand that the dead meet the standards of the living, and so rarely that the living meet the standards of the dead.
Bad times to live can be good times to write.
What is called listening usually resembles Scrabble; you look for a hook to hang your own words on.
It is so much bother to steal money properly that one might as well earn it.
The academic bibliography buries the ten books the author has plagiarized among hundreds that he has barely read.
The cat scratches at the door the moment it closes, and is the man so very different?