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

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.