We long ago ceased expecting that a President speak his own words. We no longer expect him actually to know the answers to questions put to him. We have, in effect, come to elect newscasters-and by a...
They were and are children of privilege... the privilege taught, learned, and imbibed, in a liberal arts education is the privilege to indict. These children have, in the main, never worked, learned t...
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white...
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a fa...
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
The Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her accomplishment, but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like...
The millennia-long evolution of the human family as a means of dealing with the environment was discarded by my generation of fantasists, in favor of a concept not only artificial, but inchoate: freed...
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the fo...
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
Accepted nowhere, belonging nowhere, The Human Ant is forced to roam the world, half-ant, half-cow.
How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.
As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
What gives you the right. Yes. To speak to a woman in your private … Yes. Yes. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You feel yourself empowered … you say so yourself. To strut. To posture. To perform. To Call me in...
The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays—it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In this they invert the megalomaniacal equation and make t...
JOHN: I’ll tell you a story about myself. Do you mind? I was raised to think myself stupid. That’s what I want to tell you.CAROL: What do you mean?JOHN: Just what I said. I was brought up, and my earl...
In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her...
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
What is Big Government but the Executive’s cocaine dream, an activity devoted to jockeying for position, in which he may find license for malversation, and may take the company treasury and direct it...