"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

The American vice is explanation.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

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.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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.