“People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.”

“People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.”

“Anachron’s Law:There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it.Anachron’s Corollary:There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.”

“One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits’ end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.”

“ --- she says it’s a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don’t know why they do ‘em.”from the novella Christopher O’Connor’s Romances”