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.

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

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

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

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.