Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

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

My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.