No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.