But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.