"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art."

"It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life."

"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."

"Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on."

"Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot"

"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."

"I'm a born-again atheist."

"Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it."

"Say very mildly, we have only one political party in the U.S., the Property Party, with two right wings, Republican and Democrat."

"...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist."

"That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb."

"...,I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema"

"I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife."

"Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water."

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."

"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."

"If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you."

"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."

"I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract."

"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member."

"I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it."

"Room service? Send up a larger room."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Either he's dead or my watch has stopped."

"Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it."

"Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!"

"Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!"

"Women should be obscene and not heard."

"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough."

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."

"Go, and never darken my towels again."

"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."

"Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."

"I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up."

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."

"I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"

"There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook."

"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?"

"Before I speak, I have something important to say."

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."

"Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse."

"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."