The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.