"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."

"The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky."

"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."

"Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins."

"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."

"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."

"I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!"