911 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

People love to be told what they know already.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."