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

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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.

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.

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