The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

The major cause of problems are solutions

There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.