A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution.

The ferocity of her passion was what he'd been waiting for night after torturous night. He wanted her to hunger the way he hungered. To need like he needed.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.