911 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.