Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.