P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.