“What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?”
“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.”
“Saying this is bad is like saying traffic is bad, or health-care surtaxes, or the hazards of annular fusion: nobody but Ludditic granola-crunching freaks would call bad what no one can imagine being without.”
“We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”
“If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to say, that I for one would never consent to opposing an insurmountable bar to the diffusion of literature among the people...”
“A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.”