Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.