We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.