There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.