Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

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

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.