The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.