The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

[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.

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

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.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.