Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

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

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.

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.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.