Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

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

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.