Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

I'll pick "I'm kidding" anytime over "I'm lying."

I'm certainly not fearful.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.