Quotes from Fred Reed

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

I don't think you lose anything by hallucinating. It's cheaper than airfare, the destinations more interesting, and I'd rather have a mutant squid on my window than the State Department trying to do foreign affairs.

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.

The more angry and miserable things get at home, the more people want to smack hell out of someone. It doesn't matter who. The American attitude toward the world is, "Not only can I lick anybody in this bar, but I can lick all of you at once.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.