Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

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

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

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.