Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

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

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

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

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

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.