The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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.

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

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

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.