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.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.

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