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

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

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

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.