I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

A good digestion turneth all to health.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Avaunt, you cullions!