The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.