It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'