I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

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

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.