You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.