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 Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.