I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.