I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.