I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.