I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.