Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.