If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.