I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.