A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.