Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election