A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

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

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.