It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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 was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can photograph your way to clearer thinking.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.