Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

I'm really tired of virtue.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.