When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.