One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

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.

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!