Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

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

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.