I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.