America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.