Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.