I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.