The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.