Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

An emotion is the result of a brain's strategy to manifest a heart's decision.

Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else... That someone else is you.

Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

There's going to be a time when MS-13 fires an RPG into an Alexandria [Va.] police car, and [Americans] are going to say, 'What the hell happened?'