Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.

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.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.