If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.