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.

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

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

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

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

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.