All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.