All audiences should be slightly off balance.
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.
Civilization is hideously fragile. . . there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
Depression is a choice.
The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.