There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the conse… - P. J. O'Rourke

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.

The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion— very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.