P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Kids are disorganized.
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This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
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Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as 'the Bob Dylan of the Philippines.' This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense.
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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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America is a meritocracy.