Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.