I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'RourkeWhereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.
P. J. O'RourkeThere are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
P. J. O'RourkeThe real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.
P. J. O'Rourke