“Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

“Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence”

“This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?”

“We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.”

“If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.”

“That's one small step for a man ... but a really big step ... for a baby.”