Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

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.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

Live each day as if it were your last. Learn as if you would live forever.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.