But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.