Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.