P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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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.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.