“Its something of a clich, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.”

“All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.”

“The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.”

“Dont you wonder sometimes, Miranda asked, whether women have all the power or no power at all?”

“Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any ...”

“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”