At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I had started imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.