All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.