Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.