"I am all for the short and merry life."

“The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.”

Source : Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

“Gender, race, ethnicity – these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is – involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It’s not irrational to discriminate on that basis.”

“Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.”

“Our leaders are acting like lemmings.”

“There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.”

“Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

“The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.”

“In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.”