"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen."

"It's misleading to suppose there is any basic difference between education and entertainment."

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from."

"God made man because He loves stories."

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."