Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.