Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.