I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.