A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.