Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome. - Robert A. Heinlein

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce — render emotional — his audience, each time.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

But how many men are truly wise in their handling of women? In all history you can count them on the fingers of one thumb.