Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.