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.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

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