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.

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

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.