Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.