I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
I am not a clique-y person.
Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.
