To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.