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.

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.