I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

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.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.