As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.