By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

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.