For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.