Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Today’s problem is that people are quickly falling in love and falling out of it just as quickly.

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.