“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

If you’re waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

Find my hand in the darkness and if we cannot find the light, we will always make our own.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.