“Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they...” — Tom G. Palmer Quote

“Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.”

“But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.”

“Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.”

“It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.”

“You go to Vegas and you play roulette and the chances are 50/50 but skewed toward the house a little. It could hit red six times in a row, but that's not abnormal. You flip a quarter, it would be weird if the quarter flipped tails, heads, tails, heads, tails, heads. Then you would think something trippy was going on.”

“My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.”