You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.