So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.