"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

"People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal."

"Obviously something slipped through here."

"Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment."

"Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead."

"If you are complaining about life, it is because you are thinking only about yourself."

"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."

"Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost."

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."

"Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."

"The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars."