An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.
When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults except in abnormal circumstances such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
Another cause of change one less noticeable but fundamental is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike know everything about one another and when we get together we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved doesn't make another person feel loved.