The American vice is explanation.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age. They say, "We were elected by the gods to govern the planet." But the truth is that what counts is getting hold of the last oil reserves. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the country is going to absolute ruin.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.