The American vice is explanation.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.