And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.

I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.