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'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.