The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

I'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.