460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

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

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you’re going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun.

I didn’t see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco...

Politics doesn’t work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we’ve got the poor people in.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they’ve got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can’t be eliminated by punishing people who’ve escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.