Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

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.

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.