I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

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.

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

It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.