Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.