A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'