Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

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.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.