I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.