The future is not what it was.

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper

The new definition of psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Nostalgia is like grammar - we find the present tense and the past perfect

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance (Dan Fogelberg)

After the rain, the rainbow

I am become death, the shatterer of worlds

If right-handedness is determined by the development of the left side of the brain, does that mean that only left-handed people are in their right minds? (Kelvin Throop III)

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free (Dan Fogelberg)

Books free the shackles of the mind (Carl Sagan, Cosmos)

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention. (Kelvin Throop)

Beware of the superficially profound (Kelvin Throop)

We anarchists must stick together (Kelvin Throop)

It is commonly agreed that the inventor of a weapon used to kill and maim must share in a large measure the guilt for its thousands of victims. By the way, who did invent the bicycle chain? (Kelvin Throop)

To Brother Librarian, whose task in life was the preservation of books, the principle reason for the existence of books was that they might be preserved perpetually. Usage was secondary, and to be avoided if it threatened longevity. (Miller, Canticle for Leibowitz)

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. (W. Somerset Maugham)

"Seven sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -- Mahatma Gandhi