I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.