We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

All government is an ugly necessity.