Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.