Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.