Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.