Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.