The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

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.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.