…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.

I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.