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" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

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" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

" The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. "

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. "

" Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. "

" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "

" What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? "

" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. "

" Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. "

" I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. "

" I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936. "