From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Love is blind, reason is deaf. You need both to survive.

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse