There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.