The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I am not now and never have been a girl friend of Henry Kissinger.

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore,

"First World" nations are the ones where people drive Japanese cars; "Second World" nations are where First World residents go on vacation; and "Third World" nations are the ones where people still dive out of trees to prove their manhood.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds.

It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity? If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, it would be a calamity.

"Taxes should hurt. I just mailed my own tax return last night and I am prepared to say `ouch!' as loud as anyone."

I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

Sometimes, too long is too long.

The price of success in philosophy is triviality.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.