What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.