Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem. - Robert A. Heinlein

A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.