“P. J. O'Rourke”
“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke
“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.”
-- P. J. O'Rourke