At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.