In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.