P. J. O'Rourke

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

People love to be told what they know already.

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.

I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

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 for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.