The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.