A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

If you like a book you read, tell someone. If you hate it, tell em harder.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

Bullets are creepy." Stephenie

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.