I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

It's hard to be serious in life.

People love to be told what they know already.

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

Kids are disorganized.

Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

More modern poetry is written than read.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

America is a meritocracy.