I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.