The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it’s a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can’t say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn’t seem to be real at all.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind.

I don’t care tuppence whether I’m forced into a leadership position or not. I’d much sooner not.

It?s the same thing as insurance companies dragging their feet in paying physicians.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

Football and television are like the couple running in slow motion at each other on the beach. They form the perfect marriage.

This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

For a while, you hoped the thing would turn, you know? That one of the operations in one of those towns over there would set things straight -- or, especially, those elections. Those Iraqis showed up against guns to vote. I kept hoping something like that would change things around.