The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

We are the people are parents warned us against.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

Hope is firm belief.

Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

God created seaweed… The seaweed made the world.

I feel like showering more than once a day or every day is such a white people thing.

I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.