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.

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.