There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.