Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families..

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening..

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages..

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it..

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe..

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic c….

Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet..

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present..

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling..

I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seducti….

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people ….

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclea….

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased..

Cars would be safer on rails!.

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky..

A lot of things work better in a locomotive..

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory..

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper..

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?' They wer….

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with..

The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour afte….