The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.