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- Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
- I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words,
- In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is…
- Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
- I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done…
- Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
- I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
- You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
- Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite…
- I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?'…
- Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
- I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
- I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the…
- I like to argue with the radio.
- I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please.…
- Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
- The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag…
- Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
- No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy…
- If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
- Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to…
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