It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.

[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.