The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

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.

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.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Homelessness is not the result of not having a house, it's lack of a soul in a body.

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

I don't want to die without telling you that I love you, " Everett's voice was a faint, wavering whisper, and his lips swollen and bloodied. "I always have.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

Truth is a point of view about things.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."