Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it's proper germination, growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

She is deranged, but so so playful.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.