Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.