We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.