What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.