What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.