Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.