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

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.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

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.