Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

[Michael] Moore doesn't really use his sense of humor that much.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.