Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

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 have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.