I honestly do not know who convinced America's blue collar workers that the federal government was set up to protect them, but I suspect it was P.T. Barnum or some preacher turned politician.

To be poor in a rich country is difficult, but it’s nice to know that there are millions like me who are willing to make it happen for them.

The US is like Disney World. There are the fools who pay for the right to play make believe for a day and there are the people who get paid to take the fool’s money. To each his own.

If I could choose, and to some extent I can, I believe it would be ideal to have a seemingly naïve personality and a mind that was anything but. In most cases, I believe it is wise to forgive, but unwise to forget.

I would be better off alone on Mars than here on Earth. My middle name should be, Ambivalent, because everyone I meet ends up with a bad case of it.

Peasants will always offer to compromise with sociopaths using the coward’s logic that something is better than nothing. Repeatedly throughout history, the peasants most often gave up something for nothing.