Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.