It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.